contunding

Verb

contund (third-person singular simple present contunds, present participle contunding, simple past and past participle contunded)

1. (archaic, transitive) To bruise or pound.
   • The material of this coat, though liberally scored and contunded, especially in the rear, was so thick, and so strong, that it remained exempt from perforation, in the strict meaning of the word, nor was its thread elsewhere exposed, than at the seat, and elbows.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC